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I think the record for a large tasting is still the Fonseca tasting many years ago at the RAF club. Around 34-ish bottles (including dinner wines, excluding beer) IIRC. We started early, took a dinner break, and came back for round two. Worked out very nicely for so many bottles. 04 Apr 2011, Fonse...

cem wrote: ↑07:33 Mon 27 May 2024competent

This quotation contains an important adjective.

Should we ask somebody such as Glenn to act as co-ordinator? That is, we reveal possibilities to him; he selects from those possibilities to prevent too many overlaps (not necessarily preventing all) and to further such mischief as he thinks would be most amusing. Glenn, by WhatsApp: I'm happy to s...

- Okay I've just read your blinding techniques, so something of that ilk will be required. Explanation of the blinding technique used for the 1958 horizontal (June 2014). Taking the San Pelligrino bottles as an example, I think it would be best if everyone decanted in the same method. I've found re...

85 x 2 I can provide one or two ’70s and a few ’85s. Are there any rules about which shippers may or may not be brought? Cliff providing all the Taylors , so presumably non-Cliff people must bring non-Taylors. Are there other constraints? Should we ask somebody such as Glenn to act as co-ordinator?...

There will be fourteen of us, likely all full-capacity drinkers, and 14 × 1¼ = 17½. Table space limits us to 1×A3 + 1×A4, so to about 15 + 6 = 21 glasses. Would it be wrong to have between 18 and 20? Table space is a genuine constraint. It is more efficient if printing onto trimmed /A2 (e.g., Vesuv...

cem wrote: ↑23:16 Sat 25 May 2024Anyhow I will also bring a Mag of GC77 stored in the UK so this tasting's reputation is not irreparably harmed.

GC77 in magnum has an excellent reputation. In single, not so much. I have both, and am willing to bring.

Great theme. Yes please. I’ll bring a ’70, and something else to be decided.

Yes and ‘M’ is on the bottle list but not the placemats as far as I can see. Possibly because we don't know what 'M' is? It might be Morgan (Mg), Martinez (Mz), Martha (Mt), Mackenzie (Mk), Messias (Ms) or possibly something else; Martin? Are you hypothesising Mackenzie 1977 and Martinez 1977 befor...

I am bringing two extra people, Rachel M. and Kyleigh L., met recently (as in, four hours ago) at a Spanish tasting.

Who is to print the placemats?

I have a maybe. I might have second maybe.

G77 found and standing.

Given these agreements, and other silence, all added to the first post.

winesecretary wrote: ↑15:00 Sun 19 May 2024I can’t remember my abbreviations.

Abbreviations.

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Luckily, the stairs at the B&F are Dalek-proof.

@ Julian - is the N actually Ni? I can’t remember my abbreviations. Yes. Done. I suspect that the Offley will also be Offley Boa Vista, OBV77 rather than O77 Done. "Berry's Own Selection" per the actual brand Done. correcting punctuation The text did have a dot, placed as BBR themselves p...

The the placemats have been added to the first post.

mcoulson wrote: ↑06:29 Sun 19 May 2024Can everyone make the 30th ?

Not I.

Also, is it optimal to have such a tasting in the peak of summer heat?

hadge wrote: ↑12:25 Sat 18 May 2024I'm no longer 100% for this tasting, so I will drop to reserves and JDAW gets my spot.

Thank you for the seat.

When it’s about ready, pls make a list of shippers in attendance, so that placemats can be made.

Oh, yes please. I have available F60, N63 (Grants of St James’s), G66, F66, W66. Previous events of, approximately, this type: Thu 09 Mar 2017 — {Dow,Graham,Fonseca,Taylor,Warre} × {1980,1983,1985}; Wed 17 June 2015 — The Sweet-Spot Vintages ({’66, ’70, ’77}×{D, G, T, W}), blind; Wed 23 Apr 2014 — 1...

G03, dark dark red, 80% opaque. Big and sumptuous, spice mid palate, lots of dark fruit especially blackberries. Liked.

G00, opened 22:15, decanted at 09:30. Dark dark red, 80% opaque. Mid weight, loverly dark fruit, great balance. Not super old bones in it, but in a great state right now.

G97, opened previous day then decanted 08:00. Dark dark dark red, 90% opaque. Palate had mint and dark cherries, with heat. Not in a good balance — more cellar time needed.

G94: dark dark red, 90% opaque. Light, hollow mid-palate; dark plum fruit, ending pleasingly dark-fruited and sweet. But junior to what it should be.